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Streets: Critical Perspectives on Public Space
Zeynep Çelik (Ed.)
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Description for Streets: Critical Perspectives on Public Space
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This collection of twenty-one essays, written by colleagues and former students of the architectural historian Spiro Kostof (1936-1991), presents case studies on Kostof's model of urban forms and fabrics. The essays are remarkably diverse: the range includes pre-Columbian Inca settlements, fourteenth-century Cairo, nineteenth-century New Orleans, and twentieth-century Tokyo. Focusing on individual streets around the world and from different historical periods, the collection is an inviting overview of the street as an urban institution. The theme of the volume is that the street presents itself as the basic structuring device of a city's form and also as the locus of its ... Read more
This collection of twenty-one essays, written by colleagues and former students of the architectural historian Spiro Kostof (1936-1991), presents case studies on Kostof's model of urban forms and fabrics. The essays are remarkably diverse: the range includes pre-Columbian Inca settlements, fourteenth-century Cairo, nineteenth-century New Orleans, and twentieth-century Tokyo. Focusing on individual streets around the world and from different historical periods, the collection is an inviting overview of the street as an urban institution. The theme of the volume is that the street presents itself as the basic structuring device of a city's form and also as the locus of its ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
300
Condition
New
Number of Pages
300
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520205284
SKU
V9780520205284
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About Zeynep Çelik (Ed.)
Zeynep Celik is Associate Professor of Architecture at the New Jersey Institute of Technology. Diane Favro is Associate Professor of Architecture, University of California, Los Angeles. Richard Ingersoll is Associate Professor of Architecture, Rice University.
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